California Farm No Sugar Grape Jelly

Our jams and jellies use no sugar and less natural sweetener so we get more grape jelly flavor, by using agave nectar instead of sugar. Your supermarket sells agave nectar, about $2 a cup. The only other ingredients you need are Clear Jel and lemon juice. We use Oregon State University Clear Jel from Nichols Nursery, a modified natural corn starch product. Clear Jel stays liquid in cooking and canning, allowing heat to penetrate and sterilize the liquid jelly inside the jar. It turns into solid smooth jelly when cooled when you use lemon juice as stabilizer.
California Farm No Sugar Grape Jelly
Our jams and jellies use no sugar and less natural sweetener so we get more grape jelly flavor, by using agave nectar instead of sugar. Your supermarket sells agave nectar, about $2 a cup. The only other ingredients you need are Clear Jel and lemon juice. We use Oregon State University Clear Jel from Nichols Nursery, a modified natural corn starch product. Clear Jel stays liquid in cooking and canning, allowing heat to penetrate and sterilize the liquid jelly inside the jar. It turns into solid smooth jelly when cooled when you use lemon juice as stabilizer.
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Make grape juice: Dip grape clusters in cold water, remove debris, destem, put in dutch oven over 1/2 cup of boiling water, simmer till grapes burst open, about 10 minutes. Mash with potato masher. Run through food mill with 3 mm filter to make juice.
- 2
Make grape jelly: mix pure grape juice with agave nectar, lemon juice and clear jel, stir to boil, 220F degrees, thicken, about 50 minutes: do plate test: cool 1/2 teaspoon of jelly in freezer, put drop on vertical plate, if it does not run down, jelly is ready. If not ready, simmer a few minutes more, test again.
- 3
Fill grape jelly jars: Pour warm jelly into two pint mason jars, leave 1/2” airspace. Close lids but not tight so air can escape.
- 4
Jelly canning: put pints in dutch oven, fill to bottom of the screwtop with hot water, bring to boil, low boil 40 minutes. Lift pint jars out, tighten lids, place jar upside down on towel, let cool. When cool, feel if lid is vacuum tight, put in pantry. If not tight, put in fridge.
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